March 17, 2010

New: Email Draft Auto-Saving and Recovery

Imagine this: You've been working hard on your weekly newsletter for the past two hours and then—curses! Your browser just crashed!

All that work lost, right? Not anymore. Earlier this week we launched auto-saving and recovery of drafts.

As you edit your email, you'll notice a message in the upper-right corner telling you when the current draft of your work was last auto-saved:

That's our way of letting you know we've got your back. If you step away for a while, or your internet connection drops, or your computer crashes, you won't have to worry. The next time you create or edit the same email, we'll find any unsaved work and automatically recover it for you:

If that's not what you want, you can always cancel the recovery and start a fresh draft. Either way, just remember to save when you're done. The draft will only stick around for 12 hours after its last auto-save (though we're confident that'll be plenty of time).